Global Health

There are multiple approaches available to students who seek international learning opportunities.

Collaborate with faculty members who have international connections and ongoing projects

Identify learning and service opportunities through the student-run group FIHTM (see below).

Design your own path!

Using these approaches, over the past two academic years one or more of our students studied and worked in the following countries: Australia, Belize, Bhutan, Chile, China, Egypt, England, Ghana, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Malawi, Mexico, Morocco, N. China, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Peru, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, United Kingdom, Vietnam

WUSM Global Health & Medicine

WUSM Global Health & Medicine, formerly known as the Forum on International Health and Tropical Medicine (FIHTM), is a medical-student-run group that aims to enlighten the medical community about international-health concerns both by getting out into the world and by bringing knowledge home. A major focus is facilitation of international experiences for medical students. Each year, 10 fourth-year medical students receive scholarship funds to pursue international rotations. For example, current students have plans to study in Egypt, Bangladesh, Peru, Israel, Guatemala and Honduras.

For alternative spring breaks, second-year students visit Nicaragua to work on public health clinics and clinic-building projects. FITHM also sponsors fund-raising events and organizes an annual symposium that focuses on international health.

Mark Manary, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests: Dr. Manary’s research interests focus on different aspects of nutrition in populations of developing countries, especially in Malawi, Africa. Dr. Manary has been awarded multiple grants and awards to fund his research activities, most recently including grants from the Thrasher Research Fund, Nestle Foundation and the Allen Foundation. Dr. Manary is a member of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition.

Robert T. Paschall, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests: Dr. Paschall has a special interest in pediatrics in developing countries, particularly in Honduras where he serves as leader for volunteer medical and dental teams. Recently he organized an international elective in Honduras for medical students and residents at Washington University School of Medicine and its affiliated hospitals.

Patricia Wolff
Dr. Wolff founded Meds & Food for Kids (MFK) in 2004, after she saw that medications and small amounts of the local staples rice, beans and corn weren’t enough to nourish children back to health.